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Active Administrator 8.6 - Web Console User Guide

Active Administrator Web Console Overview Active Directory Health Alerts Notifications Active Directory Health Check
Using the Health Check landing page Creating a Health Check Setting options for Health Check tests Purging Health Check History Health check tests
Forest tests Domain tests Domain controller tests Site tests
Active Directory Topology Reports Network Operations Center

Using the Active Administrator dashboard

The Active Administrator® dashboard displays panels that provide you an overview of various components of Active Administrator. Each panel is configurable. You can choose to disable a panel, which removes it from the display. Within each panel, you can choose to hide or show various data elements. All panels are enabled by default and all elements within each panel are selected by default. Each user can configure the dashboard to suit their needs. The settings are stored with the user profile.

Topics:  
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Displaying the dashboard
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Arranging the dashboard panels
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Setting refresh and rotation
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Configuring dashboard panels

Displaying the dashboard

The dashboard displays when you first open Active Administrator® in a web browser. To return to the dashboard, click Active Administrator in the page header.

You can set the panels to cycle through automatically, which can be helpful when viewing the dashboard on a hand-held device. This feature is off by default. When you turn on the feature, you can click to pause the cycle to focus on a panel for more consideration. When you are done, click to restart.

To set the panels to cycle
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Click .
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Select Cycle dashboard panels.
3
Set the cycle rate. The default is 10 seconds.
4
Click Save.

Arranging the dashboard panels

By default, all panels are enabled. You can disable a panel to remove it from the display. You also can change the order of the panel display.

To disable panels
1
Click .
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Locate the panel, and clear the Enabled check box.
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Click Save.
To arrange the panels
1
Click .
2
In the Order area, select a panel.
3
Click Move Up or Move Down to change the order.
4
Click Save.

Setting refresh and rotation

Each dashboard pane has a refresh rate that you can set. You can manually refresh a panel by clicking .

Some panels display a number of items that rotate in the display based on the number of items you select to display and the rotation rate. For example, if you select to display 10 Active Directory Health alerts in Dashboard Settings, the alerts display 10 at a time in the dashboard panel and rotate to the next time based on the rotation time you set.

To set the rates, click and set the rotation and refresh rates. The footer for each panel displays the rotation and refresh rates and includes a sliding scale that you can use to adjust the rates.

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